Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and index
Foreword / Edward Whitacre -- Preface / Laura Carey Martin -- Introduction / Walter Hopps -- The American Scene. Realism: Tradition and Innovation / Betsy Fahlman. The Vigor of Americanism / Matthew Baigell -- Modern Before 1945. The Lure of the Modern / Susan C. Larsen. Order, Structure, and the Continuity of Modernism / William C. Agee -- Mid-Century Innovation. The Adventures of the New York School / Dore Ashton. No Mere Formality / Peter Plagens -- From Pop to Minimalism. The Deluge of Popular Culture / Irving Sandler. Minimalism and Its Opposition / John R. Clarke -- Contemporary Diversity. The Personal as Political / Leslie King-Hammond. Ethnicity, Outsiderness, New Regionalism / Jacinto Quirarte. Art After Modernism: The Pluralist Era / John Beardsley -- Afterword / Peter Marzio